This is the trial lecture of my PhD, which will be defended the 24th of October 2014 in the Arctic Univ of Norway (UiT).
In this lecture I will provide an overview of the benefits and challenges of using social media in crisis management. As study case we use the ongoing ebola crisis.
Call Girls Service in Virugambakkam - 7001305949 | 24x7 Service Available Nea...
The Role of Social Media in the Ebola Crisis
1. Using social media in crisis
management: benefits & challenges
Case study: Social Media in the Ebola crisis
Luis Fernandez Luque (luis.luque@norut.no)
24th October, 2014 - PhD Trial Lecture
Computer Science Department, UiT, Tromso, Norway
2. Agenda
3 4
1
Social Media
2
Crisis Management
Miss-communication
Detection &
Monitoring
7 8
5
Education &
Communication
6
Benefits
Challenges Conclusions
3. Agenda
3 4
1
Social Media
2
Crisis Management
Miss-communication
Detection &
Monitoring
7 8
5
Education &
Communication
6
Benefits
Challenges Conclusions
5. Global Social Media
Most popular social media by country
Source: http://cdn.searchenginejournal.com/wp-content/
uploads/2011/09/social-media-black.jpeg
7. Agenda
3 4
1
Social Media
2
Crisis Management
Miss-communication
Detection &
Monitoring
7 8
5
Education &
Communication
6
Benefits
Challenges Conclusions
8. Crisis
• “a difficult or dangerous situation that needs
serious attention”
• “the turning point for better or worse in an acute
disease or fever”
• “an emotionally significant event or radical
change of status in a person's life”
Source: merriam-webster.com
10. Crisis Management
Source: William Crandall, John E. Spillan, Crisis Management in the New Strategy
Landscape, SAGE, 2009, ISBN:1412954134
11. Agenda
3 4
1
Social Media
2
Crisis Management
Miss-communication
Detection &
Monitoring
7 8
5
Education &
Communication
6
Benefits
Challenges Conclusions
12. Ebola Crisis – before the crisis
http://healthmap.org/ebola/#timeline
13. Ebola Crisis – before the crisis
“HealthMap’s automated text-processing
algorithm has been
tracking the Ebola outbreak since
March 14, when the Guinean news
site Africaguinee.com reported “a
strange fever” in the country’s
Macenta prefecture “marked by
anal and nasal bleeding.”
Larry Greenemeier, "Smart Machines
Join Humans in Tracking Africa Ebola
Outbreak", Scientific American,
September 24, 2014
14. Ebola – mobile health
“The ongoing west African Ebola
outbreak serves as a call … to
accelerate the implementation of
smartphone-based health
applications in developing
countries”
Ansumana R, Bonwitt J, Stenger DA, Jacobsen KH.
Ebola in Sierra Leone: a call for action. Lancet.
2014 Jul 26;384(9940):303
http://www.unfoundation.org/news-and-media/publications-and-speeches/
mhealth-for-development-1.html
15. mHealth and Big Data
“"We've never had this large-scale, anonymised mobile phone data
before as a species," says Nuria Oliver, a scientific director at mobile
phone company Telefonica.” BBC News
Matthew Wall, "Ebola: Can big data analytics help contain its spread?”, 14
October, BBC News, http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29617831
16. Agenda
3 4
1
Social Media
2
Crisis Management
Miss-communication
Detection &
Monitoring
7 8
5
Education &
Communication
6
Benefits
Challenges Conclusions
29. Agenda
3 4
1
Social Media
2
Crisis Management
Miss-communication
Detection &
Monitoring
7 8
5
Education &
Communication
6
Benefits
Challenges Conclusions
30. Benefits
• Real time monitoring
• Global reach with low cost
• Multiple data sources (sensors, people, content)
• Easy to scale: fast deployment, not extra cost in
infrastructure.
31. Agenda
3 4
1
Social Media
2
Crisis Management
Miss-communication
Detection &
Monitoring
7 8
5
Education &
Communication
6
Benefits
Challenges Conclusions
32. Challenges
Nowadays crisis are worldwide complex systems
crisis:
• Lack of monitoring and actuation tools
• Tools for policy makers
• Simulation and forecasting of miscommunication
• Enforcement
• Integration of multiple data source
• Training: social media is not simple
33. Challenges: Digital Wildfires in a Hyperconnected
World Constellation
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GlobalRisks_Report_2013.pdf
34. Agenda
3 4
1
Social Media
2
Crisis Management
Miss-communication
Detection &
Monitoring
7 8
5
Education &
Communication
6
Benefits
Challenges Conclusions
35. Conclusions
• Social Media has a huge impact at
global/country/local crisis
• Rapid development, lack of tools for research
and policy making
• Chaos, Complex Systems Science
• Highly multidisciplinary research
• Big Data and Data Analytics of Social Media is
growing as business in multiple sectors.